John Banville's novels include The Untouchable, The Sea, and the newly released Ancient Light.
One of his five best books on early love and the perilous flush of infatuation, as told to the Wall Street Journal:The Red and the Black
by Stendhal (1839)
Julien Sorel must be one of the most caddish heroes of any 19th-century novel—how one wishes that he and Thackeray's Becky Sharp had got together,
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